男孩儿 (nán hái r)

Character breakdown

• 男 (nán) · 7 strokes

  Traditionally males (男) were the people who plowed (力) the fields (田).

• 孩 (hái) · 9 strokes

  Phonosemantic compound. 子 represents the meaning and 亥 represents the sound.

• 儿 (ér) · 2 strokes

  Simplified form of 兒. Variant form of 人, a pictograph of a human.